The GALAX GTX 970 EXOC Black Edition vs. the 290X
We received our first GTX 970, the EXOC Black Edition from GALAX, at the very end of December, and we have been testing it against a recently purchased reference version of the 290X from VisionTek, as well as against our …
The GTX 960 arrives as the ASUS STRIX OC DirectCU II
Nvidia’s new Maxwell architecture arrived in mid-September with the launch of the GTX 980 and the GTX 970, replacing the Kepler GTX 770, 780 and 780 Ti. Maxwell brought some amazing performance and energy-saving improvements at 28nm without moving to …
ASUS GTX 960 OC Performance results with 28 games
We received an ASUS GTX 960 STRIX OC Edition a week ago under NDA and are still benching for this review. In the meantime, here is what we call the “Big Picture” which will compare the $209 – just released …
CES 2015 – Wear it, Drive it, Watch it . . . It’s Coming
When you’re caught up in the magic of CES (Consumer Electronics Show), it’s pretty hard to tell what is going to be the next great movement/idea and what is going to be a yeah … but. It’s impossible to “see” …
GeForce WHQL 347.09 mini Performance Analysis
As part of a regular feature for BabelTechReviews, this short evaluation is comparing the performance of 28 benchmarks with the GeForce WHQL 347.09 driver release versus the last GeForce WHQL 344.75 drivers released previously. We realize that we are a …
33-game Platform Analysis with Devil’s Canyon & GTX 980 SLI
Is it time to upgrade from Core i7-3770K Ivy Bridge or from Sandy Bridge? What about upgrading from the i7-4770K to Intel’s latest Devil’s Canyon CPU – the i7 4790K – in the pursuit of a few more good MHz? …
Maxwell Arrives! High Performance & Efficiency takes the crown
(This evaluation was originally published on AlienBabelTech by this author on September 18, 2014 as Nvidia’s NDA ended and was subsequently lost from the database in a hard drive crash in December and it has been republished and updated here) …
Using Kingston’s 240GB SSDNow mS200 mSATA as a caching drive
(This evaluation was originally published on AlienBabelTech by this author in early November, 2014 and was subsequently lost from the database in a hard drive crash and it has been republished and updated here) In April of 2014, Kingston announced …
Social Media … Targeted Marketing
Social Media … Targeted Marketing Until They Turn on You The world of new media – widgets and social applications – it’s a great big beautiful marketing hunting ground. Imagine people flocking to Web 2.0 locations where they blog. They …